Newsletter | October 22, 2025

10.22.25 -- The Key To Outsourcing Is Timing, Not Timelines

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With more than 65 years of sterile injectable manufacturing experience, Simtra BioPharma Solutions offers world-class GMP sterile fill and finish services, deep scientific and technical expertise, and a uniquely collaborative approach to support our customers’ strategic objectives. As two industry-leading CDMOs in the ADC field, MilliporeSigma and Simtra have forged a Strategic Alliance for Drug Substance and Drug Product ADC Manufacturing with the shared goal to delivering your drug development program to market more efficiently.

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Site Transfer Of Tablet Production From Ex-US To Georgia Site

Explore how strategic U.S.-based manufacturing and supply chain diversification can reduce risk, lower costs, and enhance supply reliability for pharmaceutical products.

Softgel Technology: A Game-Changer For Oncology Treatment

Understand how softgel technology enhances rapid drug absorption and precise dosing, offering crucial benefits for high-potency oncology treatments and improving overall therapeutic performance.

Spray-Dried Bevacizumab: Treating Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

The development of physically stable, biologically active dry powder formulations of large molecules for inhalation has remained a persistent challenge within the biopharmaceutical industry.

FEATURED EDITORIAL

The Key to Outsourcing Is Timing, Not Timelines

The Rolling Stones sang, “Time is on my side.” Nary a biotech would agree. Brent Powell, Ph.D., a process chemist at biotech Insmed, and who started his career at a CDMO, knows a few reasons for this, and how to make the strategic change in your thinking from timelines to timing-lines.

How Do You Know When You've Adequately Established A Reliable Supply Chain?

Leave it to an Outsourced Pharma Live digital discussion to ask the questions others leave out. How much de-risking is too much? When can you sleep at night knowing your supply chains are as they should be, and you can fully rely on them? Oh, and we answer questions such as these as well.

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS CONTINUED

Enabling Complexity: Drug Substance Manufacturing Via Continuous Flow

As molecular complexity continues to increase, flow chemistry is becoming an essential enabling technology to facilitate the integration of complex synthetic methods into API production.

Powering Drug Development With Advanced AI Retrosynthetic Analysis Tools

As process chemists face new challenges, review advanced retrosynthetic analysis services and discover how these tools enable the development of innovative small molecule drugs more efficiently.

Winning Strategies For Oral Dosage Form Development And Manufacturing

Failure to identify a compound’s red flags early in development often manifests as program delays or failures. Discover how to avoid these setbacks through complete molecular characterization.

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SOLUTIONS

Designed For Inhalation: Pulmonary And Nasal Delivery

As the top industry partner for development, launch, and supply of new treatments, we offer integrated solutions for pulmonary and nasal delivery with significant capacity in North America.

Drug Substance Or API Manufacturing

Our global network spans nine sites in five countries, supporting NCE programs from discovery to commercialization with a cost-efficient model that simplifies outsourcing.

OUTSOURCED PHARMA CAPACITY UPDATE

Find Your New CDMO At Outsourced Pharma Capacity Update

CDMOs in biologics, cell and gene, and small molecule share their capabilities and available capacities. See for yourself why this virtual event has become a wildly popular resource to identify options for your development and manufacturing needs.

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